Teaching

My teaching experience includes:

1. Over 17 years of teaching experience on both viola and violin teaching all ages from 3 – 70.
2. Guest lecturing at Yale University (whilst a teaching assistant of Music History at the Yale School of Music).
3. Presented workshops for primary school children (introducing them to the sound of the orchestra with specific reference to music composed which represents the forces of nature).
4. Coaching chamber music and lecturing at the South Carolina Governor's School For the Arts & Humanities, Greenville, South Carolina (lecture: ‘Shostakovich, Francisco Goya and Tom Jones’ “Delilah”’).  

I currently have vacancies for private violin and viola instruction for all grades.

Rates: £23 per hour, £12 half-hour

I also teach music theory.

Curriculum Vitae
Bernard John Kane

Positions:
Teaching Assistant (viola and violin), University of British Columbia (2001-2002)

Viola and Violin Teacher (private) 1990-present

Founder/Director, Chameleon Cymru (Chamber Ensemble), Cardiff, Wales (2000-2002)

Teaching Assistant (Music History), Yale University (1997)

Education:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2001-2007

Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestral Instrument (July 2007)

Dissertation: "From Manuscript to Publication: Aspects of Lionel Tertis' Style of Viola Playing as Reflected in his 1936 Edition of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Suite for Viola and Orchestra"
(adviser: Alexander J. Fisher)

Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, 1995-98

Master of Music in Viola Performance (May 1997)

Royal College of Music, London, UK, 1991-1995

B. Mus (Hons) in Viola (1995)

Orchestral Experience:
Chamber Orchestra of Wales, extra (2000-2007)
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, (extra) 2007
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, (extra), 1999-2001, 2007
Pacific Baroque Orchestra, (extra) 2002
Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale, (principal), 1995-1998
Yale Symphony Orchestra, (principal), 1997
National Youth Orchestra of Wales, 1989-91

Chamber Music/Festivals:
Aberdeen International Festival, Scotland, 2000
Verbier Music Academy, Switzerland, 1999
Pine Mountain Music festival, Michigan, USA, 1998
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, CT, USA, 1997
East-West Music Academy, Altenberg, Germany, 1996
Delphinus String Quartet, U.B.C., 2003-2007
Chamelon Cymru, Founder/Director, Wales, 2000-2002
Chameleon Canada, Vancouver, 2003
English Bay String Quartet, 2002-2003
Harkness String Quartet, Yale, 1997-1998

Research:
Discovery of unpublished letters now used in dissertation "From Manuscript to Publication: Aspects of Lionel Tertis' Style of Viola Playing as Reflected in his 1936 Edition of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Suite for Viola and Orchestra" via Oxford University Press Archives.
Discovery of original marked Lionel Tertis Parts at
Trinity College of Music, London also used for dissertation.
Vaughan Williams manuscripts used - held at British Library.

Awards:
Mildred Johnson Scholarship in Music, UBC, Vancouver, 2001-2006
St David's Society for the State of New York Scholarship, 1997
George Lauder Greenway Fellowship, Yale University, 1995
Exhibition Scholarship, RCM, 1991

Website:
www.kaneviola.com
(for listings and recordings of solo repertoire)


References:

Alexander J. Fisher, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Music
University of British Columbia
6361 Memorial Road
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
CANADA
email: fisher@interchange.ubc.ca

David Harding
Professor of Viola
U.B.C.
6361 Memorial Road
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
CANADA
scratchy@interchange.ubc.ca